Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scoring breakdown, by weapon, went like this. Harvard foil and epee teams took six out of nine bouts each. The sabre squad was 5-4, although the first team was 3-0 before leaving...
Members from Hospital Workers Union 1199 have been on strike for over a month, due to a breakdown in negotiations with hospital administrators...
While it is doubtful that the provisions in the October 1972 settlement lay the basis for a viable political solution in South Vietnam, the agreement does protect both sides against its breakdown. Thus, the U.S. will continue to supply arms to Saigon, and Hanoi will maintain most of its troops in the South which it will supply unimpeded. The U.S. has accepted the responsibility of ensuring Saigon's release of all political prisoners three months after the beginning of a ceasefire...
Virginia's first breakdown occurred after her mother's death when she was 13, her second after her father's death nine years later. Her grief was maniacal. She found the act of eating obscene. Worst of all, she heard "horrible voices," among them "King Edward VII lurking in the azaleas using the foulest possible language...
Turnbull relates the ghastly results, a breakdown of social relations so total that today healthy men and women, given food in plenty for their families, will gobble and gorge until they vomit, rather than share anything even with their infants. It was common, he writes, "to see the very young prying open the mouths of the very old and pulling out food they had been chewing." Children are torpid and withdrawn. If a man's wife falls by the trailside, he will leave her to die, then grumble if someone else robs the body first. The old, weak...